Matt Taibbi has been doing yeoman's journalism work in exposing the inner sanctum of snakes and scorpions that comprise the Wall Street thieves, their minions and the politicians whom they own.
All the better to hear him publicly calling out a major network and it's pathetic programming and host that pretends to be a journalistic review of Washington goings-on:
Matt Taibbi called out David Gregory on Thursday while lamenting the media's treatment of Glenn Greenwald.
Taibbi announced Thursday that he is leaving Rolling Stone for First Look Media, Greenwald's new venture with Pierre Omidyar. He joined HuffPost Live to preview his plans and the conversation turned to Greenwald, who has been criticized by somejournalists and public officials for working with Edward Snowden and revealing the NSA's secret domestic surveillance programs.
David Gregory, for example, asked Greenwald last June, "To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?"
On Thursday, Taibbi called Gregory's tone towards Greenwald "outrageous."
"I don't know how he can call himself a journalist and talk like that," he said. "Look, this is the job. The job is we're supposed to report the truth. If whistle blowers come forward, we're supposed to take the risk along with those whistleblowers and society long ago decided we should have protections when we do this."
"Modern journalists just don't recognize how serious it is," Taibbi added.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/matt-taibbi-david-gregory_n_4825247.html
There is a reason that Taibbi is very rarely, if ever asked to come on any of the three major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) or the cable network's news shows. It's because he too fucking honest and too fucking incorruptible. His independence guarantees his reputation. He's the younger, modern version of Seymour Hersh. He's relentless and he fucking doesn't care who's powerful toes he steps on in the pursuit of ferreting out the truth of a story.
In other words -- Matt Taibbi is everything your modern-day mainstream media is not.
Be sure to follow him on his new venture -- bookmark his page. His shit not only is deadly in it's accuracy and truthfulness -- it is also funny - if by funny you think watching your foul-mouthed, right-wing NRA neighbor come running out of his house and slip on a banana peel is funny - then it's funny.
Here's a link to his current blog at Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog
Read a real journalist for a change.
----TFG
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